View your trip in Google Earth

If you’re a Google Earth user, here’s some good news. You can now export your travel map as a KML file so that you can view it in Google Earth (Google’s wicked program that allows you to explore the world on your PC). Your travel route and your journal entries are exported in the file, so it basically provides the same data as your online map. Of course Google Earth provides a lot more flexibility and many more features, such as the cool experience of flying over a 3D landscape (of which a snapshot is shown in the accompanying picture).

So where can you find that KML file? Well, you’ll notice a new small icon directly under your map, which looks exactly like the image to the left of this text. Clicking on that icon will open your travel map’s KML file in Google Earth. (Tip: give the ‘Play Tour’ option a try!)

We hope you and your visitors will enjoy this new Fuzzy Travel feature. And if you’re not a Google Earth user yet: I can highly recommend you to download and start using it! It’s a wonderful way of exploring the world from behind your computer. It shows even the most remote locations in great detail, and literally puts “the world’s geographic information at your fingertips”. Check out http://earth.google.com/ for more details.